A little PhotoShop Question

[CyberXR]

Hi again!

Was told to post this question in this forum =)

When i use the 'buckettool' in photoshop I get a white line around the fill. For example: if I paint a black circle and fill it with green, I will get a white circle between the black and the green color. Do you know what is wrong?

Many thanks for an answer =)

Cheers
(PS: Look at my picture below)

[Ismael92]

That's because there are some semi-transparent areas, and as you probably know the bucket tool only paints adjacent pixels which have the same color. However there's a tool in Photoshop called "Feather" (I think it was called like that).

When you select the bucket tool, at the top you can see it's options and change the feather value. The minimum (1 or 0) means that it'll only paint adjacent pixels which are exactly the same. If it's higher, it will paint adjacent pixels that are more or less the same, even if they are a bit different. Higher the value, higher the difference between the pixels it'll paint.

I hope you understand it, but to sum it up, just make the "feather" value higher :)

[CosmicDeath]

The answer just before this one could help, but there is also the option of filling your colours on a separate layer. If you use the magic wand tool, select inside the lines on your lineart layer (you can press ctrl+shift to select multiple fill areas at once, but they must be within sealed bordering lines so that you don't select accidentally select extra areas on your page at the same time), then go to Select>Modify>Expand. It will bring up a little popup menu asking how many pixels you'd like to expand, try just a couple at first to see if it will cover the space. Now create a new layer underneath the line art layer and fill within the expanded selection. This will give you more easily editable fill areas where you can adjust colours without affecting the lineart. It will also ensure that the fill doesn't look jagged under the line art as it would do if you filled on the same layer (unless the line art was jagged in the first place).

Hope this helps.